Box-fastener



(No Model.)

B. M. WILLIAMSON.

BOX PASTENER.

Patented Oct. 31, 1882.

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BOX-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,666, dated October 81, 1882.

Application filed July 12, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BELLY M. WiLLIAM- soN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing-Boxes; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of packing-cases for bottled goods ofthat class provided with interior racks intended to keep the bottles in place. These cases are employed not only for the shipment of merchandise in bottles, but also for the return of the empty bottles, and therefore, being repeatedly used, require to be made strong and durable. It is also necessary that they be provided with acover that may be readily applied and locked or unlocked and removed,and that shall be securely held in place through all needful handling in transit. Itis further desirable that the l'astenings employed to retain the cover shall not interfere with the insertion or removal of the bottles.

It is mainly to the last-mentioned object that my present invention is directed; and to this end it plincipally consists in the construction and combination of the parts forming the box, its cover, and its fastening, substantially as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box and cover constructed in accordance with my invention, the cover being shown elevated above the open box. Fig. 2 is a central transverse vertical section through the fastening.

A is the box proper. B is the cover. 0 is the interior bottle-rack. The box A is provided with the external vertical end cleats, D D,which rise to the level of the top of the box-cover when the latter is in place. The sides of the box overlap the cleats, and are nailed thereto as well as to the vertical edges of the box ends. The front and ends of the box are of even height, but the back A is wider by the thickness of the cover, and rises to the height of the cleats D. hen the cover B is in place on the box, therefore, the top edge of the said back and that of the cover are flush. For the (No model.)

purpose of holding the back edge of the cover to the box the said edge is rabbeted, so as to leave a lower rear projection, 11, as shown. A groove, a, corresponding to and intended to receive this projecting edge or tongue I), is provided in the back A, having its lower face flush with the box ends. The tongue Z) and the cover are strengthened by means of the strips B, set in the ends of the cover, as shown in Fig. 1. To the box-front is aflixed any suitable fastening. I have here shown a fastening consisting of a spring-catch, E, whose hook E engages the staple B on the under face of the cover. A hole, 6, through the box-front allows the spring-catch to be released by thrusting a pencil or similar article inward against the spring and forcing the same back out of engagement with the staple B so as to allow the cover to be raised. The cover is held laterallyin place on the box by means of the cleats I), the raised back A, and one or more dowelpins, b I), set in the under face of the cover in position to drop justinside the box-front. Said dowel-pins and the spring-catch E are located opposite bars of the rack (l, and consequently stand between the contained bottles when the case is filled and covered.

Boxes have heretofore been made with a strip fixed to the back and sides, overhanging the interior and forming a permanent narrow part of the cover, and with cleats applied to the under face of the cover, projecting at the back edge, so as to extend beneath the overhanging strip mentioned, and also extending at the front to serve as stops to prevent sliding of the cover, as here stated ot' the dowels.

The advantages of the construction here shown are as follows: By avoiding the overhanging strip at the back of the box the rear bottles may be lifted vertically in removing them, as required when they are set in the rack bottom up when the rack is high as sometimes required, or when the bottles are packed closely. By dispensing with the cleats the cover may rest closely upon all the bottles, holding them better in place, and, since the dowels set down into spaces between the botties, the box may be made shallower by the thickness of the cleats.

The staple 13 0f the fastening, as here shown, may be so placed as to serve as a stop, in lieu of the dowel or dowels b.

' I claim as my invention In testimony that I claim the fore oing as 10 Thebox described, having its back A exmy invention I affix my signature in presence tended above the sides, and provided With the of two witnesses. groove a, and having the upwardly-extended 5 cleats D, combined with the cover 13, having BELLY M. WILLIAMSON. the tongue I) on its rear edge and the pins 1) near its front edge, and a suitable fastening or Witnesses: catch for the front edge of the cover, substan- M. E. DAYTON, tially as and for the purposes specified. JEssE 00X, Jr. 

